Office Lindau

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lindau office on a map in 1759

The office of Lindau was a historical administrative area of ​​the bishops of Hildesheim and later of the Electoral Mainz archbishops in Lindau im Untereichsfeld .

history

Mushaus

The office emerged from the medieval castle district of Lindau Castle. The owners were initially the lords of Plesse , the dukes of Braunschweig and, to a lesser extent, the lords of Rume. Bishop Otto von Hildesheim acquired part of the castle in 1322 and built the new Lindau Castle, of which the Mushaus is still preserved today. The bishops of Hildesheim then acquire the remaining shares in the castle. From this time on the Lindau office is also mentioned. The office included the places Lindau, Berka, Krebeck and Renshausen as well as places that no longer exist today.

The new owners in turn pledged the castle and office to the Lords of Hardenberg , Rosdorf , Freden, Bortfeld , Leuthorst and Bodenhausen . In 1434 a half-vote was sold to the Electors of Mainz. Through a contract between the Bishops of Hildesheim and the Electors, the other half also came to Kurmainz in 1521. Heinrich and Kaspar von Hardenberg used these as pledge holders. In the years after 1562 and 1606 there were disputes between the bishops of Hildesheim and Mainz over ownership. The office remained in the possession of Kurmainz until 1802, with only Lindau and Bilshausen remaining in office. The administration was located in the so-called Mushaus until 1741, then in a newly built baroque office building, which was demolished in 1974.

Modern drawing of the office building

During the Franco-Westphalian occupation, Lindau was the only place in the Eichsfeld to be assigned to the Osterode district within the Harz department. Within the district, Lindau represented the canton of Lindau with Wulften , Berka, Hattorf and Dorste .

After Lindau came to the Kingdom of Hanover , the old office of Lindau was not restored, instead a Gieboldehausen-Lindau office. In 1832, from the part of the Lindau Office and the Katlenburg Office, the Katlenburg-Lindau Office was created within the Landdrostei Hildesheim of the Kingdom of Hanover. The Lindau District Court, created in 1852, was finally dissolved again in 1859.

Officials at Lindau Castle

Lindau castle and palace at times had several owners at the same time, but they did not live in Lindau themselves. In turn, they set up lords of the castle for the bailiwick and the later office. A precise assignment of the individual lords to the feudal lords is not always possible with certainty.

Officials of the Dukes of Braunschweig

Officials at Lindau Castle and the Berka court were:

  • 1337 Gottschalk von Plesse and Heinrich von Hardenberg

Lords of the new Lindau Castle

The following lords of the new castle are proven in Lindau:

  • 1322 Ludolf von Wedeheim and Burkhard von Wittenstein
  • 1338 Conrad von Rosdorf, Jan von Hardenberg
  • afterwards that of Tastungen, of Bortfeld
  • a loan from Revenfloh in 1383 to Albrecht von Leuthorst
  • a castle loan behind the must-do house to the Lords of Uslar and from these in 1453 to Heinrich von Bodenhausen
  • from 1437 Otto V. von Plesse (Mainz bailiff)
  • around 1530 Heinrich and Caspar von Hardenberg
  • around 1577 Dietrich and Heinrich von Hardenberg

The Archbishop of Mainz appointed Otto V. von Plesse as bailiff in 1437 and gave him an order to protect the office with a Landwehr and guard towers. A Landwehr reached from the Rhume near Bilshausen to the Höherberg and further west from the Worterode desert to Groß Thiershausen . Waiting towers are known on the Höherberg and Langer Berg near Worterode. Remains of the Landwehr are known to the north on the Höherberg and between the Langer Berg and Thiershausen.

Kurmainzer magistrate in Lindau

Due to the border location to the Brunswick areas, only the places Lindau and Bilshausen belonged to the Electoral Mainz Office of Lindau. The majority of the Electoral Mainz Office consisted of the following people: the magistrate, the magistrate, the actuary, the clerk and the official officer. The following magistrates are known:

  • 1500 Johann von Minnigerode
  • 1545–1549 Kaspar von Hardenberg
  • 1549–1579 Nikolaus von Leuthorst
  • 1589 Hans Voss
  • 1613 Heinrich Hidessen
  • 1617–1635 Johannes Grobecker
  • 1656–1685 Jodocus Adrian Schott
  • 1685–1722 Johann Andreas Schott
  • 1748–1756 Georg Karl Klinckhardt
  • 1791 Heinrich Schuchardt

literature

  • Johann Wolf: Memories of the office and Marcktfleckens Lindau in the Harz department, District Osterode . JC Baier, Göttingen, 1813

Web links

Commons : Amt Lindau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • [1] Archives in Lower Saxony: files relating to the Lindau Office (1352–1792)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Wolf: Memories of the office and Marcktfleckens Lindau in the Harz department, District Osterode . JC Baier, Göttingen, 1813
  2. ↑ Rudolf Brodhun: Lindau bears the name "Flecken" again. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift Verlag Mecke Duderstadt 2012, page 81
  3. ^ Helfrich Bernhard Wenck: Hessian national history. With a document book. Volume 2 near Frankfurt and Leipzig by Barrentrapp and Wenner 1789, page 790
  4. ^ Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldisches Urkundenbuch together with the treatise of the Eichsfeldischen nobility. Göttingen 1819 ( Treatise on the Eichsfeld nobility, as a contribution to its history. Pages 37-45)
  5. ^ Hermann Bringmann: Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the Untereichsfeld, illustrated using the example of the village of Bilshausen. in: Goldene Mark 27th year 1976, issue 3, pages 53-65
  6. ↑ NN: 900 years of Lake Constance. 550 years of defense and shooting. Additions to the "600-year Festschrift 1333-1933". Lake Constance 2007
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Bernhard Sacrifice man : Gestalten des Eichsfeldes. St. Benno-Verlag Leipzig and Verlag FW Cordier Heiligenstadt 1968
  8. ↑ NLA HA Hann. 27 Hildesheim No. 711/2